The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-25

bill was
RESUMED By GLADSTONE.
He referred to the unprecedented po-
sition of the house. which had already
sat two months, during which, he said,
its independent initiative had been sup
pressed. Even now the Conservatives
exuited over the prospects of passing
the. motion by forcing the house to an
absolute surrender of Its whole time
until bill of an extremely severe char
| er had been carried. The house
was threatened with frequent applica-
ton of the closure if the debates were
prolonged. No greater calamity could
befall the house than this sort of pres
sure, and would bring the
PROCEDURE RULES INTO DIsREpUTE.
He had seen more parliamentary life
than any other man in the house, but
he never knew Of so grave a state Of
affairs. It was due to the extreme
abuse OF power by the majority,
which, If persisted in, would
| leave behind sense of intolerable
wrong. The yoke thus put on the neck
OF the house would not be borne
patiently. The position of affairs was
very different from that when the
coercion bill Of 1881 was passed. There
were no papers before the house, nor
was there any indication of the nature
of the proposed government measure.
Heretofore, IN asking special legislation
for dealing with crime in Ireland, the
ministers cried the terrible prevalence
of crime and threatened social dis.
order. Was that the case now? No
The house had teen told that num-
Der of agrdrian otfenses prior 10 the
passage Of torsler's coercion act ex-
ceeded the highest number since. The
crime then, however, was of different
character from that which the govern
ment now fought. The present crime
consisted N combining for certain
REDUCTION OF RENT.
Irish cheers.) Even the evidence
which the government Put before the
house showed that this crime was re-
stricted to the demands for just abate-
ment OF rent. Never had any former
coercion act been resisted by a majority
of the members from Ireland. (Cheers.)
Now was the protest against coercionS
from the overwhelming majority of Irish
4A0N lA4S SpNC4L oil
Just claim for demanding coercion or
urgency for the new repressive measure?
After appointing g commission for
the examination on the spot of
the rent question and the evils
arising from the land laws, the govern
ment now put aside the recommends
tons OF the commission, and asked
Parliament for increased power
TO MAKE THE LAws'sTILL MORE OFFENSIVE
to the general sense of the Irish peo-
pie. Cheers.l General Buffers evil
dence proved that the tenants were not
paying rent; that there was no general
movement against the payment of rent,
but a combined effort to obtain fair
rents. The Irish people aptly followed
the example constantly set by others to
see what they could make out
of exclusive dealings. (Cheers.)
Government has a contract which
could not be broken, yet Balfour, while
practicing the doctrine of sanctity of
contracts, is going to introduce bill
breaking the leasehold of contracts ad-
justed under the act OF 1886. That gov
eminent demanded
COERCION FOR IRELAND.
Of whatever nature the government
measure should turn out to be, as a
duty, Liberals, whether in the minority
or the majority, should refuse the ur-
gency. He trusted the people of Eng
land would see the Liberals united in
opposing this alleged measure to its
last stage. The Liberal members would
ring out that justice and reason against
the proposition of the government
which, after eighty-slx years of expert
ence, is preparing, under the name OF a
statute of Parliament, to strike a
fresh blow at the life and happiness of
Ire and and at the prosperity, content
ment and unity of the Irish.
GLADsToNE's DENUNCIATIoN
of the use of the cloture to curtail the
debates on the urgency motion and the
coercion bill has forced the government
to reconsider the subject. The ministry
mas decided to permit prolongation of
the discussion, but will insist that the
house forego its Easter vacation. The
coercion bill will be passed before the
holidays. One section of the Glad
stonian party Is discontended with
Gladstone's half yelled approval of the
plan of campaign of the English Home
Rulers, and the Parnellites are de
lighted with the speech.
Raifour in introducing the coercion
bill
WILL RESPOND TO GLADsToNE's cHAL-
LENGE
to the government to state what crime
there is that justi6es the adoption Of
the measure.
The Dublin executive has prepared
statement designed to assist Baifour in
proving that the plan of campaign
has been directed against tradesmen,
who are creditors and farmers, belong
ing to the National League.
The Parnellites will maintain the plan
strictly confined to the arrangements
expecting rent.